# Accident 19981009029519A: Amrgen AA5, Provincetown, MA, October 9, 1998

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 9, 1998, 23:35 local time
- Place: Provincetown, MA
- Airport: Provincetown Municipal Airport
- Damage: Damage unknown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.0553° N, 70.2523° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs from the FAA’s distance and direction from , within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.0553&lon=-70.2523&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7100L, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7100L-1999-03-01) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Grumman American Avn. AA-5 (registry code 3960104, https://openairdocs.org/model/grumman-american-avn-aa-5) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMRGEN AA5
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB NYC99FA012](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC99FA012) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981009029519A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ACFT WAS ON ILS APPROACH WHEN IT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, PILOT SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES. (-23) RONALD H. SINZHEIMER, PILOT IN COMMAND OF N7100L, WAS ON AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH TO RUNWAY 7 AT PVC AIRPORT, PROVINCETOWN, MA.  N7100L DISAPPEARED FROM RADAR WHILE ON APPROACH.  THE CERTIFICATED PRIVATE PILOT WAS FATALLY INJURED AND THE AIRCRAFT IS ASSUMED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.  THE AIRCRAFT IS APPROX 150 FT UNDER WATER.  THE PILOT OF N7100L WAS RECOVERED ON 10/15/98 ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN SIDE OF THE CAPE COD PENINSULA, OPPOSITE OF THE TOWN OF WELLFLEET, MA.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB NYC99FA012](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/NYC99FA012), Oct 9, 1998: Grumman American AA-5 (N7100L), Provincetown, MA, destroyed, 1 fatal. Probable cause: The failure of the pilot to follow the published instrument approach procedure, which resulted in inadvertent collision with water. Factors in the accident were the dark night and low ceiling.

## Other reports on N7100L (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19761206039599A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19761206039599A), Dec 6, 1976: Grumav AA5 (N7100L), Ft.Sumner, NM, Substantial damage. Acft continued flt with approx 350 ft of wire on tail. Landed at arpt.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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